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Monday, October 17, 2005

The BEST thing about attending birding festivals such as the Midwest Birding Symposium is that you get to see your pals, and make new ones. And you get to take stoopid pictures all the while. Here are a few. In order they are: Image #1: John Acorn, Julie Zickefoose, George Wheat, and Bobby Harrison (ivory-billed woodpecker finder guy), Image #2: Alisha Craig and John "Wincy" Acorn, Image #3: my beloved mother Elsa in full breeding plumage, and Image #4: John Acorn's Sleestak, a proto-dino-humanoid.

1 comments:

Yeah, the "Dinosauroid" totally reminded me of a Sleestak (from "Land of the Lost") as well. I'm a bit confused by the attribution to your friend John Acorn, though. This Wikipedia article and The Encylopedia of Astrobiology [...] indicate that the sculpture is by Dale Russell and Ron Seguin. Do you just mean your friend took that particular photo? Looking closer, it appears to be a photo taken during a slideshow.

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Bill of the Birds

Bill Thompson III is the editor of Bird Watcher's Digest by day. He's also a keen birder, the author of many books, a dad, a field trip leader, an ecotourism consultant, a guitar player, the host of the "This Birding Life" podcast, a regular speaker/performer on the birding festival circuit, a gentleman farmer, and a fungi to be around. His North American life list is somewhere between 673 and 675. His favorite bird is the red-headed woodpecker. His "spark bird" was a snowy owl. He has watched birds in 25 countries and 44 states. But his favorite place to watch birds is on the 80-acre farm he shares with his wife, artist/writer Julie Zickefoose. Some kind person once called Bill "The Pied Piper of Birding" and he has been trying to live up to that moniker ever since.